My heart is breaking for my state of South Carolina over this Confederate flag issue. I can see and understand both sides of the argument and I am in favor of the flag being taken down off governmental grounds and put into a museum, but I also know how it is to be prideful of your homeland, which is what pro flag people feel when they see the flag. I’ve never had much of an opinion of the flag because my first allegiance is to the South Carolina, not to the US or a government that didn’t work out. But I feel we can’t go blaming the Confederate flag without also blaming the American flag since it flew over decades of slavery. Many of our Founding Fathers were slave owners, so why doesn’t anyone go after them or vandalize statues of them? And what about the Confederate flag that flies over the grave of a free Black man who proudly fought for the Confederacy? Do we take that one down too when the Black Confederate veteran himself wanted it there? It may seem like a simple thing to do to everyone outside of the South, but removing a flag isn’t going to change the country. The only change that will happen is when people have a change of heart and most people are going about it the wrong way to get people to change their hearts. Make love, not war, people!